Conocopillips

[hotwing]

I went through F50 initial with a couple of their guys about a year ago. Both guys were very happy to be there. One came from Skywest and the other had a boat load of Lear charter time. Both nice guys.

It sounded like they had one of those stone age seniority systems but were expecting some turnover due o retirements.

I have been to their hanger a couple of times, very nice place The ERJ's do a shuttle they are based in HOU, which is the Conoco part. The Phillips part comes from Bartlesvillle OK.

Let me clear this up --

They operate out of KIAH. The shuttle was part of Conoco prior to the merger three years ago... They added Bartlesville as a stop from Ponca on the way to Houston post merger. Now the shuttle runs from Ponca to KBVO to KIAH and back twice a day...

 

[sleepy]

I went through DA-50 initial with their old CP and recurrent with another one of their pilots a while back. I am not sure that everything is so great there. They put a Phillips manager (no aviation background) in charge of the Department. Seems that he is an expense nazi, wanted the pilots to share a room on the road to save money (a la Wal-Mart).

 

[hotwing]

I went through DA-50 initial with their old CP and recurrent with another one of their pilots a while back. I am not sure that everything is so great there. They put a Phillips manager (no aviation background) in charge of the Department. Seems that he is an expense nazi, wanted the pilots to share a room on the road to save money (a la Wal-Mart).

Luckily, this has been cleared up I am told... This is not happening and was avoided... Things have been rocky, but from what I hear, it is still a great place...

 

[User546]

N1023C is the tail number of the ERJ shuttle that they use to ferry employees between Houston, Ponca, and Bartlesville.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0756916&size=L

 

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